494 // Erica Franolich - Part 4

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Erica's sister Nada and private investigator Greg Overacker about the disappearance of Erica Franolich from Middleburgh, New York in October of 1986. This is part four of five. This episode originally aired in 2020. Erica Jayne Franolich was last seen around 9 pm on October 13, 1986, near Main Street and Railroad Avenue in Middleburgh, New York. At the time, she lived with her husband, Richard, and their young son. Their marriage was troubled, and she reportedly told her brother she was afraid for her life and wanted to leave. Richard told police Erica had gotten on a bus and he did not hear from her again. She was reported missing by her family in Michigan in February 1987. Richard later moved to northern Vermont. At the time of her disappearance, Erica was 26 years old. She was 5 feet, 4 inches and weighed 100 pounds. She had brown hair and brown eyes. Erica has a mole on her left knee and protruding upper front teeth. She was last seen wearing a baggy shirt and blue denim overalls. If you have helpful information please contact the New York State Police at 1-866-723-3697 or [email protected], or Private Investigations For the Missing at 1-866-331-6660 to leave a message for our investigators or email [email protected]. Sources: https://www.investigationsforthemissing.org/more-about-erica.html. 2024 article: https://www.news10.com/news/schoharie-county/troopers-continue-to-investigate-38-year-old-disappearance-out-of-middleburgh/. Greg's book on the disappearance of Brianna Maitland: https://books.bloatedtoe.com/the-hunt-for-brianna-maitland/. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing and please donate if possible: https://investigationsforthemissing.org/. https://piftm.org/donate. https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing. https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/. https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/. Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to Missing. This is Tim here today with Lance. This is part four of five of our coverage of the disappearance of Erica Franilich. This five-part series originally aired in 2020, but we want to bring it to the forefront here in 2025. And Lance, this is part two of our interview with Neda, who is Erica Franulich's sister.
0:59.3	And of course, Erica Franulich is a missing person from Middleburg, New York that we've been
1:04.4	covering here.
1:05.2	And this is episode four.
1:06.9	I do want to let you know that you should listen to the first few.
1:10.4	If you haven't already, please do.
1:12.8	They are in the feed, and they're important.
1:15.9	And they're all pretty shocking.
1:17.3	And a lot of it's information that has never been out there in the public.
1:20.3	That's correct.
1:21.9	Erica has been missing since October 13, 1986.
1:26.2	She was 26 years old when she went missing,
1:29.1	five foot, four inches, about 100 pounds. And Neda is a tour de force. She really is. And the heat
1:36.2	is being turned up pretty dramatically on Erica's husband Richard, who has always been, I guess
1:43.3	you'd say, in the crosshairs of suspicion
1:45.4	with the family.
1:46.7	That's right.
1:47.2	And we'll play part two of the interview in just a moment.
1:49.5	But before we do, here is our segment brought to you by Private Investigations for
1:54.3	the Missing.
1:55.0	It's on this date, April 30th, 1992.
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